Jordan Gold

Disciple of Jesus. Grace Enthusiast. Husband to Macy. Father to three.

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

"Much Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love."

~Henri Nouwen

[Luke Simmons @lukedsimmons]

I have to constantly remember that good leadership is always doing one (or more) of these things:

1. Defining current reality

2. Dream a preferred future

3. Design the path to get there

4. Delight in the people you’re taking

5. Defend against sabotage that wants status quo

[Jeff Vanderstelt @JeffVanderstelt]

Sometimes deconstruction is actually reformation, seeking to be faithful to the Scriptures when leaders or churches have departed from them. Remember Luther?

[Jon Tyson @JonTyson]

The whole goal of 2023…

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

Davies!!! #FIFAWorldCup

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

We want the church to be good news to the whole city, because Jesus was good news to everyone when he strolled into a village.

- Tyler Staton

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

@dawsko This is great, Dawson!

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

Good thread.

[Lecrae @lecrae]

A lot of Christians are afraid of “Deconstruction.” I’ve personally gone thru it and let me give you food for thought.
1. There are 2 types of deconstruction happening in the church. One is healthy the other is dangerous. 🧵

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

"I might drop by." - extroverts lying

[sammy rhodes @sammyrhodes]

"I might drop by." - introverts lying

[Herman Bavinck @Herman_Bavinck_]

That which unites all true Christians is always more than that which separates them.

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

“Father, where are you at work? How can I join you?”

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Good missional theology and practice believes that wherever we go, God has already been working.

We don't bring God anywhere. Rather, we discover through prayer and conversation where God has been at work.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Three keys to engagement from Micah 6:8:

- Do justice- Intentionality. Christians can't ignore a broken world.
- Love mercy - Engage from a place of compassion. A heart broken for the world.
- Walk humbly - Remember our frailty & fallenness. We are joining God on his mission.

[Derek Vreeland @DerekVreeland]

The bulk of the Bible could be read as the story of the people of God learning to walk in the ways of God for the sake of the justice of God on the earth.

#KingdomAndCountry

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

“Christian discipleship, by orienting us in God’s work and setting us in the mainstream of what God is already doing, frees us from the compulsiveness of work.”
- Eugene Peterson

[Ethan Seifried @ethanwseifried]

“Christian discipleship, by orienting us in God’s work and setting us in the mainstream of what God is already doing, frees us from the compulsiveness of work.”
- Eugene Peterson

[Doug Wolter @DougWolter]

Let’s be that person who people want to come to in their deepest struggles—that person who truly listens & genuinely receives others in their pain and says, “I’m here, and my heart is with you.” For when we do that, we are surely being Christ to one another.

[Saturate @SaturateWorld]

We won't be effective in reaching people if we rely on them coming to church or events to hear the gospel. Instead, we need to approach life with gospel intentionality, so people see what it looks like to be a follower of Jesus in the everyday stuff of life. - @JeffVanderstelt

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

How Jesus discipled a small core:

● Information = insight into the nature of God and the Kingdom.

● Imitation = modeling what it looks like in real-time.

● Interdependence = knitted together in a multi year journey.

● Incarnational = hands on in the neighborhood.

[Underground Network @undergroundvox]

Microchurches are the smallest expressions of church: going deep together, discipling and empowering believers to be sent out as Christ's ambassadors, and reaching the lost all over the world. #microchurches

[Jordan Gold @JordanGold7]

I wonder the same thing.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

Church leaders, what you do with your ministry pain will either make you hard and cynical, or a wounded healer.

Whenever I hear stories of toxic, defensive pastors, I wonder if that is a leader who never properly dealt with their own pain.